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Last week Roy Cohn, 59, found himself on the losing side of what may have been his most crucial legal battle. A five-judge panel of the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court ordered him disbarred. Ruling on four charges by a state disciplinary panel, the judges described his professional conduct as "incredible," "startling" and "reprehensible...
...incident, the judges decided, Cohn spent nearly two decades evading repayment of a $100,000 loan from a woman whose divorce he had handled in 1966. Cohn claimed the money was simply an advance against future services, but the court cited 23 documents, some of them written by Cohn himself, indicating that it was a loan. Cohn's firm returned the money in 1984, but only after the misconduct proceedings against him had started. The court also found that a $94,000 escrow account entrusted to Cohn's firm was misappropriated in a "bizarre series of events," and that...
Directed by Marya Cohn...
When she was 5 1/2 months old, Traci Cohn of Rockville, Md., developed a 104 degrees F fever and cried inconsolably for three days. Ever since that illness Traci, now 17, has been mentally retarded. Her family and one of her doctors believe that the fever and subsequent mental damage were the direct result of the pertussis, or whooping cough, inoculations that she received in the first months of her life...
...Cohn, flamboyant superlawyer, in response to last week's suit by the U.S. Government seeking $7 million in back taxes, penalties and interest for earnings between 1959 and 1983: "I'll fight them and beat them...